Opinioned Notion Discourse

Opinioned Notion Discourse

American
Political Culture:

American politics has taken a swing ever
more toward the extreme right. It’s obvious in its results of the 2016 U.S.
elections outcome and is following a global trend apropos of not only rogue
nation leadership, but of civilized nations gravitating into nationalizing fronts.
In the notion, ‘we like who we are in likeness’, whether it transcends from
race characteristics, social order or to economic structures...an ever
increasing majority is wanting to shut out minority entities who they deem are unlike,
therefore unlikeable to their own wants, beliefs, religion and ethnicities.

Perception is an innate survival emission
in the animal world and mankind is no exception to this. Perceiving, though
inbuilt, utilizes tools to enforce it. However, environmental events are
perceived differently from one species to the next.

When demolition of a building occurs,
the birds resting atop the building perceive what is about to transpire a split
second before detonation and fly away to safety. The tortoise crawling on the
ground just below does not, getting hit by falling debris before it even knew
what has happened. In a wolf trotting by, the common housefly sees it so in
slow motion, whereupon a sloth sees the wolf as a hurried blur. Metabolic rates,
although not exclusive, are a tool used in perception in both of these cases.

A specific species can also show varying
levels of its perceptive world and this is where Homo sapiens sapeins comes into play. Metabolism allows organisms to
convert fuel (food) into energy using that conversion as cellular building
blocks to carry out life’s functions. The converting process is known as
‘catabolism’ where as the component building process is known as ‘anabolism’.

Enzymes play a critical role in this
process by acting as a catalyst, speeding up metabolic rates. Acting as a
catalyst, enzymes are not a part of the chemical transformations, so are still
utilized for future chemical conversions. Nonetheless, in man as a species enzyme
levels can either be lower, or higher, or fluctuate in individuals. This either
speeds up the energy format or slows it down...hyper versus lazy. This hyper/lazy
extreme ends of the spectrum is where man’s political nature comes into play.

Metabolism in man is not solely a
physical trait, but also a mental one in how one perceives his ambient
environment and this includes one’s political nature. Hyper versus lazy also
entails how one reasons in perception, which can be a blind spot to what
perception is real, or not. As in the tortoise and the sloth, this can be
detrimental in the species’ perception of the dangerous elements in its
surrounding environment; henceforth, the Trump supporter.

In our perceptive being, we need
purpose; it is a self-organizing aim in life. Perceptive purpose of self is an
identity tag providing a framework of behavioral patterns for short term
everyday life. As motivation, this purpose dictates dedication in pursuing
specific directions within finite resources limiting perceptive means, such as
time, energy and reason for long term achievement. Since a life aim is not
achievable merely through purpose, long term perception is deceived, so
devotion kicks in becoming delusionary in amicus reasoning.

We see this in man placating that
misconstrued devotion onto religion and leadership to further heighten that
deceptive purpose hold. There are no gods...only the faithful purpose man
employs onto those gods. It just appears that it is in the ethos of the human
being in delegating confidence of self over to some ethereal deity or rogue
leader.

A case in point along this train of
thought is Gene Huber of Trump’s last weekend 2020 campaign rally in Melbourne,
Florida. Huber was the fella that was allowed on stage to get a hug from Trump.
Huber claims he has a life-size cardboard Trump standee that he not only
salutes to, but religiously prays to every day. This is a classic example of
relinquishing all self confidence in one’s self by rolling that confidence to
some other entity in feeling they can improve their own life better than they
can.

What’s so dangerous in this; it is bad
enough to put one’s confidence into another’s hands relinquishing not only
one’s self-confidence, but also one’s self-identity and self-determination. Add
to the admixture that the leader is not only self-serving but as well a proven
narcissist, poor Huber hasn’t a chance in life worshipping a cardboard cutout.

What I conjecture as worse than a bad
leader is that leader’s followers. No matter how bad a leader is, he/she will
have devoted followers; ie: Trump. But in the same token, no matter how good a
leader is, he/she will have an entourage of opponents; ie: Obama. I don’t like
including these two comparisons with Trump/Obama examples, for it precludes to
perhaps most that I am bias in this writing. But in my experienced
observations, please read on to see if I might amend your thoughts concerning
intentional bias on my part.

With a perspective on life without
purpose, folks feel disparaged and if the sensible path has made them feel
alienated, they will emotionally disengage and seek a subjective alternative
for self while not weighing in intellectually. Undesirable outcomes become
nonessential as fervor engulfs their emotional sensibilities degrading common
sense and social compassion. In this newly found enigma, they give their total
devotion and relinquished confidence to the one they feel can do no wrong.

This is borne out in Trump and his
followers. No matter Trump’s daily lies to his followers, in their perception
he only spreads the truth. Satisfied with his propaganda, it is the ‘fake news’
media that constantly lies. By insistently calling out commonly used Republican
scapegoats as the enemy, Trump supporters now feel more comfortable and
empowered to hiss at minorities, other religions, cultures and now the media,
the judicial system and intelligence agencies. Trump is fueled by disruption
and he is “bigly” willing to pass on that disruptive cause to his allegiant
following.

Divide and conquer is a good concept in
a military war, but to divide one nation is a history lesson always worth rereading.
This is exactly what Trump is doing while his followers relish along its
destructive path.

In effect, Trump supporters have allowed
narrow minded religiosity to meld purpose with unrealistic goals warping their
perception. This is purpose without goals and in erasing the complexities of
goals, their new found symbolic savior reigns in a simpleton awakened refreshment.
For ya see, to grasp and take hold of goal accomplishments requires abstract
cognitive individual intuitiveness. It also enlists an individual’s perceptive
tools of insight, perspective, introspect and conceptual planning. This takes
effort and there are those that won’t put forth.

I dare say, most Trump supporters cannot
grasp, or won’t devote thoughts to abstract cognitive concepts, for it is
difficult and time consuming in generating logical purpose. Being ignorant is
much simpler allowing one to avoid suffering as opposed to those who seek out
purpose, but fail to meet its mandates. However, this false immunity to the
suffering in playing ignorant does not compete with those that did indeed perceive
purpose but still failed. Attempting is a far better outcome than ignoring.
It’s an ongoing learning experience and to know, or knowledge gained is
happiness. Whereas, the ignorant will remain angry always seeking out the fall
guy to constantly replenish that pent upped anger. Expectations can and does
deceive perception.

Purpose for Trump supporters has been
lost in their avoidance of goals warping their perception. This, not only in
long term, but even short term will endanger or at the very least negatively
impact their lives and others resulting in an outcome that is totally opposite
of what perception is biologically supposed to do and that is preservation.
Trump supporters illogically think they are persevering in what they perceive
as substantive, but in not even knowing it, have been hoodwinked instead.

Irregardless of Trump’s supporters the
Trump/Russian connection will bring Trump down. As I wrote just after the
elections, Trump will either quit or be impeached within two years. Trump’s
chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who is a proud curator of white nationalist
propaganda needs to go immediately, for he is not only a threat, but an
internal threat to the security of this nation.

Bannon wants to destroy our government.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference he unveiled his ‘destructive
economy policy’ and admitted that Trump's Cabinet picks were chosen to destroy
the agencies they’re supposed to lead. He describes his new form of government
as “economic nationalism.” As a
self-proclaimed Leninist he stated to journalist, Ronald Radosh, an adjunct
fellow member at the ‘Hudson Institute’ that, “I want to bring everything crashing down.” This nation is not quite
ready for a Vladimir Lenin idolater.

Antic
Perishables:

Zero sum thinking is the thought that to
receive anything, first, someone else must lose it. This zero sum thinking in
perception, keeps the loyalty of the Trump fan base tethered, through lies, but
too, in Trump’s overshadowing those lies by
constant shirking on blaming whom he deems as his enemy as the ones
lying. His “so-called judges” and “fake news media” baseless accusations
are an affront to the U.S. Constitution. He also insinuated U.S. intelligence
has lied about him and Putin by claiming, “These
are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College
victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.”’

Besides the fact in insisting the
seventeen intelligence agencies are lying through association with 9/11, Trump
and his administration also lied about the electoral win spread and ended the
statement rather pretentiously with the stolen slogan, ‘Make America Great
Again’.

Anything outside the realm of normality
is assuredly perishable and certainly an orange thin skinned adumbration is no
exception. Sure, all politicians lie, perhaps more so than folks in other walks
of life, but to the level and consistency Trump has is incorrigible.

On top of that, from common folk who
disagree with him to established traditional U.S. institutions, Trump blames
everyone else as the deliberator of ‘fake news’ and if that is not enough,
Trump supporters not only believe the blatant Trump inaccuracies, they promote them.

How can the media be lying when for the
most part they’re reporting what Trump has actually said or did? This is a
harmful sickness and it’s a behavior that is going to eventually bite back
hard. Just hopefully, that bite isn’t deep enough to bring the nation down to
its knees as it will Trump.

Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson had to
defend NATO allies breaking from Trump’s NATO attacks. Vice President Mike
Pence and Defense Secretary James Mattis had to fly over to Europe to assure that
the U.S. will honor its commitments to the international organization. They
were speech smoothing that the bonds between West European countries and the
U.S. were still lock-in-step after unease had crept in from Trump’s NATO and
Swedish comments and his lack of reason in his abhorrence for Germany’s
Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Of course, all the Trump surrogate
officials have been running around each week to try and amend or appease Trump
tweets. Apparently there is burnout on that job, for now it is performed in
weekly shifts. Kellyanne Conway as Trump spokesperson has been replaced by
Stephen Miller who has been replaced by anyone else in the administration.

Just this last week, it was Reince
Priebus hitting all the Sunday political talk shows as Conway and Miller had
left the building being visibly absent. About the only defense Priebus could
muster over Trump’s defense when it comes to claims of the lying media, is that
the media throws all these stories out there without naming any sources. Actually,
Priebus should evaluate his boss a little more, for that is exactly what Trump
does. Lest we not forget during Trump’s years of birther claims, he would be
asked on numerous occasions where he got his information and he would always
reply with no names, just, “anextremely credible source.”

More recently, Trump’s claim of 3-5
million fraudulent Hillary votes is totally baseless. Their only defense is how
many dead people in states are still registered to vote and registrants in two states, but that is sloppy
states’ record keeping; it is not voter fraud. In fact Trump’s chief
strategist, Steve Bannon was registered in the two states of California and New
York when the November elections occurred, but that still doesn’t prove he
committed voter fraud unless he did vote in both states.

In the video below, NBC’s Peter
Alexander stops Trump dead in his irascible bully tracks relegating him to a whimpering
sycophant. Alexander questioned Trump at the 02/16/2017 press conference about why people should believe him when he’s
rolling out false information on claims he had a record Electoral College vote
count. Trump demurs by saying he was given information without saying from whom,
then devolves in changing his story in that he was referring only to Republican
presidents. Alexander further embarrasses Trump, if that’s possible, by
revealing both Bush presidents had higher electoral votes. Trump once again
says he was given that information. It’s just numbers, but the addition to all
this is that Trump was proclaiming he had 306 electoral votes when it is
actually 304.

Trump is putting the nation and the
world on edge. This is the consequence of governance by chaos when Trump
officials are always scrambling to repair what Trump has proclaimed either in his
attacks or lies, for...who is to be believed.

Trump even lies to the American public
when it is so easy for the public to fact check him. Concerning the
intelligence ‘Steele memos’, after a 01/11/17 conference with Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper, Trump tweets this the following day:

As evident in the public summary of the
‘Steele memos’ put out by U.S. intelligence, it clearly states, “No one in possession of the memos has yet
verified them or determined them to be inaccurate.”

Trump and his administrative officials
have incessantly denied that there were any communique between Russia and Trump
or his administration during the presidential election campaign. However, this
is in stark contrast to U.S. intelligence officials and Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak who have all
stated there was.

U.S. intelligence reports confirm Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign had repeated conversations between Kislyak and
Flynn. Communications between the two continued after Trump’s victory on Nov. 8th
according to officials with access to intelligence reports on the matter.

Rybakov, in a Thursday 11/10/16 said, “Obviously, we know most of the people from
his entourage. I cannot say that all of them but quite a few have been staying
in touch with Russian representatives.”

Kisylak himself in a short interview
with the ‘Washington Post’, admitted having contacts with Flynn before and
after the election, but he declined to say what was discussed. It’s a sure hedge bet Kisylak is not a common
Joe name to the average American, but I’ve an itchy scratch it soon will be.

There’s a corollary here manifesting;
the more Trump’s administration lies about having no Russian contacts, the more
intelligence leaks occur saying they do.

As put out by the ‘Toronto Star’, just
his first month in office, Trump has spewed forth over 80 lies; that’s an
average of three a day and there is never an apology offered for misleading the
nation.

Oh
the Hypocrisy:

What Trump’s outright lying leads to is
his overt hypocrisy; oh the hypocrisy of it all. In his Florida campaign rally
last Saturday (02/18/17), Trump had this to say in the video below to his pawn
supporters:

He not only said it, but Trump repeated
that the rich have to pay their bills. Yet, supposedly as a very rich self-proclaimed
multibillionaire that he ever “so-called”
is, Trump did not pay his bills to hundreds of small businesses and
subcontractors working on and in his real estate properties. A lot of them had
to lay off employees, for some they even had to close their small family businesses
because they couldn’t absorb Trump’s nonpayment while working on tight budgets.
They thought doing business with the Trump name recognition would be a big
boost for their businesses, instead; it drained them of most or all of their
assets.

One example is GOP strategist, Brian
Walsh. Speaking to NPR host, Ari Shapiro on the September 28, 2016 airing, Walsh
stated that Trump stiffed his father on a six-figure 1980’s telecom job. Walsh
claims that Trump, although giving no detail whatsoever as to why he might be
unhappy with Walsh’s father’s work, refused to pay, instead attacked his father
and said that if he wants to sue him for the salary, it would cost him more in
litigation.

Walsh confesses it hurt his father’s
business, but was able to recover and become successful, although he knows of
other small businesses that went under due to Trump not paying them what he
owed.

In strategizing for Republicans and
being a lifelong member to the party, Walsh said he could not vote for Hillary,
but he emphatically said he would not cast his vote to Trump.

When asked on why he wouldn’t vote for
Trump, Walsh contended, “Well, I think
like many Americans, you know, I have very serious concerns about not just
Donald Trump's temperament, but his experience and qualifications for the job.
And as an American and a voter, Hillary Clinton's attacks resonated with me and
I just was sitting there smiling saying yes, you know, I actually have a
personal firsthand knowledge of this.”

Now first off, I don’t believe that
presidential vacations are something to make a fuss about, for the president is
still in contact and working the current issues. Also, the cost of presidents
taking vacations would cost about the same if they didn’t go on vacation, for
presidental secret service and other services is on duty 24 hours a day no
matter where the president is. However,
Trump has made a big deal out of it, so I’m going to relay his hypocrisy.

Trump, during Obama’s presidency
consistently complained about Obama’s vacation and golf outings. Some of his
tweets are below.

Now Trump confesses he won’t be playing
golf or vacationing at all, but for his first month in office, he has turned
his Mar-a-Lago into the Winter Fun White House three weekends in a row making a
lot of money off of it by inviting elites over with $200,000 fees each to do
so. These socialite members also are getting an opportunity to watch Trump go
over classified material and take selfies with the nuclear football, the person
who carries the briefcase holding the nuclear codes around with him wherever
the president goes.

Unfortunately this is costing the local
West Palm Beach airport a ton of money. Each Trump visit puts heavy airspace
flight restrictions coming or going from the airport during Trump’s visits;
they’re losing paying aircraft fly-ins and fly-outs. If it continues they may
go out of business.

$97 million of taxpayer dollars is what
Obama spent in his eight years of office on vacation travel. Trump in just his
first three weeks in office spent over a tenth of that at $10 million.

Obama during his eight year tenure
played golf once every 8.8 days. Trump currently is worse off than that at 7.8
days. But lo, Trump said in May of 2016 on the campaign trail, “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not
going to have time to go play golf.” All of this...is on the taxpayer’s
dime.

Now, as of 02/24/17 he’s reported to be
going on his fourth consecutive Mar-a-Lago vacation which bumps the taxpayer’s
dollars up to $13 million in Trump’s weekend getaways. That is more than the
average of what Obama took in a year at $12.125 million. Remember, it was Trump
who declared and promised on his campaign trail in a 6/23/2016 interview with
‘The Hill’, “I would not be a president
who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

Trump’s terrorist Sweden comment at the
Florida campaign rally (in which by the way, calling it a 2020 campaign event
allowed him to hock his various Trump paraphernalia), baffled everyone. After
going on about Islamic Terrorism, he suddenly interjects, “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in
Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”

Nothing happened that night in Sweden
except for an amorous bull moose attempting to make it with a wooden decorative
moose as confirmed by Swedish police reports.

With everyone scratching their heads as
to what Islamic terrorist incident Trump was referring to, WH damage control
came pouring out. Speaking to reporters Sunday (02/19/17), principal deputy
press secretary, Sarah Sanders told reporters, “He was talking about rising crime and recent incidents in general, and
not referring to a specific incident.”

Later that Sunday, Trump tweets: “My statement as to what's happening in
Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning
immigrants & Sweden.”

First-off, Trump was specific in stating
what happened “last night in Sweden.”
In immediately making the statement after expounding on Islamic terrorism, it
did not come off as generalization. Secondly, Trump says he got his material
from TV’s ‘Fox News’ Tucker Carlson segment concerning a crime wave report ever
since refugees had been accepted into the country.

Funny why he would use a news source
instead of not referring to U.S. intelligence, but anyway that ‘Fox News’
report was a bit phony in itself. Carlson was interviewing conservative
filmmaker, Ami Horowitz whose sole intention was to blame crime waves on Middle
Eastern refugees. Police officers, Horowitz interviewed were led under the
impression that Horowitz wanted hot spots of crime in Sweden. Whether it is
from Swedish nationals or refugees, Horowitz didn’t stipulate. Most Swedish
crime indeed is conducted by Swede nationals.

One of the police officers, Anders
Göranzon told the ‘Dagens Nyheter’ newspaper the following Monday, “I don’t understand why we are part of the
segment. The interview was about something completely different to what Fox
News and Horowitz were talking about. It was supposed to be about crime in
high-risk areas; areas with high crime rates. There wasn’t any focus on migration
or immigration.”

Concerning fake news...in speaking of
Tucker Carlson and ‘Fox News’ as the only news worthy of Trump’s praise,
Carlson recently went for an interview segment over current protesters. He
could not get any protester organizers to agree to be interviewed on the
segment. They all refused his offer. So ya know what he did, he hired an actor
to act as if he was a protest organizer, then aired it on his 02/20/17 show. It was all a sham and with an added
‘e’...shame...

Trump may have been half baked, but in
his defense, there really was a recent Swedish terrorist attack this past
month, however it wasn’t Islamic terrorism. A neo-Nazi fascist group carried
out a homemade bomb attack on refugees stationed at the ‘Gothenburg Asylum
Center’. One person was seriously injured.

So, Trump fires his national security
advisor, Michael Flynn. He claims it wasn’t for Flynn actually speaking to Russian
agents about sanctions imposed by Obama before Trump’s inauguration, but only
because he ruses Flynn lied to VP Mike Pence about it in telling Pence
sanctions were never brought up.

Actually, I feel that Pence knew Flynn
had discussed the Russian sanctions with Russians and lied to the media when he
reported that Flynn didn’t. For ya see, Trump was briefed by intelligence
officers almost two weeks before Pence’s 01/15/17 CBS interview that indeed
Flynn had spoken about sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. So,
since Trump knew, why did he not tell Pence? Might be because Trump has taken
the Hypocritical Oath and used Flynn to be the stooge?

No one needs to feel sorry for Flynn,
for if ya might recall, Flynn at the RNC this past summer cheered on the
Hillary chant to “lock her up.” Even
stated if he’d done only a tenth of what she has done to damage national
security, he’d be locked up. Well then, “lock
him up.”

Trump quipped during a listening session
with manufacturing CEOs that, “All of a
sudden for the first time we’re getting gang members out, we’re getting drug
lords out, we’re getting really bad dudes out of this country and it's a military operation because what has
been allowed to come into our country.”

Using the military to apprehend people
living illegally in the interior of the country is unconstitutional and a
violation of U.S. law. All the Trump administrative surrogates had to run out
and do more damage control. Sean Spicer at a WH press conference, attempted to
gloss it over with white crayons in saying, “The president was using that [military operation] as an adjective.” Spicer needs more
English refresher courses, for “military
operation” is not an adjective.

This is the second time Trump has
mentioned using military force. The first was enlisting the ‘U.S. National
Guard’ to combat Chicago gangs. Also, Obama had already been getting the
undocumented ‘bad guys’, so much so his administration has deported more ‘bad
guys’ than under any other president, so Trump is not doing anything new with
criminal immigrants, but he has with the meek and mild undocumented.

Trump goes around sallying forth he’s
only rounding up the “bad hombres, thugs
and murderers,” but with ICE agents going into a hospital, hand and feet
cuffing an undocumented woman that is suffering from a brain tumor then hauling
her to the detention center is a bit too much for me. This actually happened last
week in Texas. Where does she fit into the “bad
hombres, thugs and murderers” scenario?

Yes, Trump has been, to say the least
quite spiteful concerning illegal immigration, but how hypocritical is this? In
2013, undocumented immigrants, in working the cheapest jobs, paid out $12
billion in federal taxes; as for Trump, a billionaire, 0. Trump has paid zero
(nada) in federal taxes since 1999 due to his bankruptcy filings. Along with
that, undocumented workers contribute 3% to the nation’s GDP.

Trump himself, Trump administrators,
Trump pundits and Republican politicians continually on a daily basis spread
fear of how dangerous a threat Islamic terrorism is to Americans. Funny that
though, in the week of February 12-18, 2017 there were three terrorist plots or
attacks that were thwarted on American soil by law enforcement officers. But it
wasn’t Muslims, it was white nationalists. But of course, nothing was said
about that from Trump and friends.

Just this February 23rd ,
Adam Puritan stepped up to two men of Indian decent while eating in a Olathe,
Kansas bar and grill and apparently mistaking them for Middle Eastern origins, but
for sure in recognizing their darker skin color yelled out, “Get out of my country,” then shot both
of them killing one and seriously injuring the other.

Fueled by Trump fervor, there have been
144 mosque attacks from confetti to burning the building down since Trump’s
election. Jewish synagogues haven’t been faring well either, 100 synagogues
were defamed and damaged just within a ten day period after Trump’s election.

It is nice to know though that American
Muslims donated $100,000.00 to the ‘Chesed Shel Emeth’ Jewish cemetery just
outside of St. Louis, Missouri that had many of its headstones knocked down and
broken just last week. In like, leaders of the Victoria, Texas Jewish community
donated their synagogue for Muslims to worship in after a January 28, 2017 set
fire had burned their mosque down to the ground. Trump should take note of this
and spread its American diversity unity spectrum instead of using rhetoric to
enflame division.

According to the, ‘Southern Poverty Law
Center’ who compiles these statistics, there’s been 1,094 hate crimes conducted
just in the first month of Trump’s election. Since Trump’s election win, Muslim
mosques have been receiving hate messages like, “He’s going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.”

Except for Spicer calling it “absurd” in comparing this uptick to
Trump’s nationalism stoking, Trump and company have not mentioned one thing
about white nationalist terrorism. Needless to say, nothing has been mentioned
either about the Quebec, Canada mosque attack where a white supremacist killed
six this past January.

Trump didn’t even feel the need to send
his personal condolences to the Canadian victims and Canada; for it might just
be he didn’t want to recognize this form of terrorism, which goes against the
grain of his framework of terrorism as only being Islamic related.

The white misogynist nationalist, Milo Yiannopoulos
had his U. C. Berkley speaking engagement cancelled due to a student uproar
over it. Trump, although legally he can’t without congressional approval, threatens
to revoke the university’s federal grants for the cancelling. Other Republicans
complained the university acted out against free speech. Why, Dan Adamini,
former chair and current secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party even
went so far as to say on a ‘Facebook’ post that, “I’m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution protest
stopped after only one death.”

Lo and behold, Yiannopoulos was also
committed to speak at the CPAC meeting, but instead, got jilted again, for CPAC
cancelled him. It appears that they could tolerate his white supremacy efforts,
his female bashing, even his being gay, but when a pedophile account came out
about him, they shuttered the door.

So, where is the Republican outrage over
free speech? Where is hypocritical Donald Trump’s threat to CPAC for doing the
same thing? Nowhere...

Trump claims he “inherited a mess” but yet takes all the credit for the January’s
‘Department of Labor’s job report when it was concluded on January 12, 2017, a
full eight days from his inauguration. The report stated that 227,000 jobs were
added at a 4.8% unemployment rate.

It’s funny why he would claim the 4.8%
as his own, when on the campaign trail he repeated numerously that any
unemployment rate around 5% is “such a
phony.” He also stated, “The number
isn’t reflective. I’ve seen numbers of 24 percent. I actually saw a number of
42 percent unemployment. Forty-two percent! 5.3 percent unemployment; that is
the biggest joke there is in this country. The unemployment rate is probably 20
percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you
it's a 30, 32 and the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent.”

Well it appears Trump’s confused on
which number it actually is so decides to keep raising the unemployment bar,
while mind ya, not revealing what source where he heard these so-called factual
figures.

Trump’s clueless hypocrisy also extends
into the national debt. He says this in his tweet below:

Again, what Trump inherited from Obama
and what Obama inherited from W. Bush are at opposite poles. It takes a full
nine months into a newly elected president’s office for his actual policies to
start affecting entities like the national debt and employment. Trump’s got
eight more months to lay claim to what is actually being impacted from his
administration.

Trump not only hasn’t drained the swamp,
he’s filled it with snapping gators that will snap shut on the everyday
American worker. Trump’s first regulations were to repeal financial regulations
to allow financial institutions to begin doing what they did that lead to the
‘Great Recession’ of 2008.

In his first hours in office he made it
pricier for first time homebuyers. Just an hour in taking office, Trump suspended
a rule that would have made certain mortgages less costly. Bannon and Mnuchin
both worked for Wall Street’s ‘Goldman Sachs’ making millions off of hedge
funds that helped lead to the financial recession.

As far as Trump’s administration goes
there has never been such a collected group of billionaires in any president’s
office. Trump’s billionaire list is:

The ‘President Strategic & Policy
Forum’ are corporate CEOs advising Trump on how government policies will affect
the economy.

Just Trump’s initial fifteen secretarial
cabinet picks were worth $13 billion. The total so far for his current
billionaire administrative seats secured is $82.52 billion. How Trump voters
were conned into a billionaire looking out for their welfare by flooding the
swamp with more billionaires still eludes me.

Running
Crybabies:

In holding up, or should I say in lack
of holding up to constituent meetings to promote transparency and the sharing
of concerns, Republicans as of late have been running scared like crying
cackling chickens with a fox in the coop. Instead of facing the backlash of
repealing Obamacare or refusing to investigate Trump over his Russian
connections, more than 200 Republican congressmen will not hold a town hall
meeting, or holding private invitation only meetings, or holding impersonal
robocalls, or if holding meetings, allowing only Republican constituents to
fill up the room or at least the front rows, or canceling meetings altogether.

For those that did go through with the
meetings, they indeed tripped and fell into a buzzing hornet’s nest, with some
Republican politicians cowardly sneaking out before the meeting’s end. Perhaps
if they weren’t attempting to defend Trump and repeal or degrade public
policies from the ACA, Medicaid and Medicare to Social Security, all the while
doing irreparable repeals to environmental laws, they wouldn’t find themselves
under such scrutiny.

Hundreds of thousands across the nation
are packing into town halls:

There are simply too many town hall
meetings where the Republican politician got an earful to relay here, but
following below are a few highlights.

Voters are upset and Republican
politicians may justify it as paid professionals, or folks from out of district
or state, or it’s a Democrat affront, but it is an authentic reaction to common
folk finally getting upset with Republican rhetoric, why no interests in the
GOP congress in investigating the Trump/Russian connection and how Republicans
are going to dismantle concrete public policies.

Below is a collage video of Republican
town hall meetings.

Many congressmen ducked and ran for
cover before hosting their appointed town halls. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
announced the cancellation of his town hall because he had to be in Europe. He
lied, for he was seen in Florida lecturing at a ‘Florida International
University’ political science class, then ventured on over to a private ‘Jackson
Memorial Hospital’ event closed to the press and public the same time his
no-show town hall was supposed to start.

Then there’s ol’ Rep. Louie Gohmert, who
usually talks so tough, but was so fearful for his life that he cancelled his
town hall meeting. Herein lies his scaredy-cat excuse, “Unfortunately, at this time there are groups from the more violent
strains of the leftist ideology, some even being paid, who are preying on
public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety.” He then
proceeded to compare himself to Gabby Giffords in that he could get shot by
some crazed leftist.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn did hold a meeting
where she was met with boos and shouts of “shame
on you” after stating lies and being very condescending. She also kept
stressing on a CNN next day interview that the crowd for the most part were not
her district constituents, but Wolf Blitzer kept cornering her misleading lies.

Rep. Michael Coffman (R-CO) saw how big
his constituent crowd was, so said that he would interview four a time behind
closed doors. After doing around sixteen, he then attempts to sneak away. He
does sneak away out the back door to a waiting chauffeured car, but is caught
in the process with the crowd shouting “shame
on you.”

Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) skedaddled
from her two scheduled town hall meetings. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) has his
staff abruptly cancel his meeting that was scheduled weeks in advance. Rep.
Darrel Issa (R-CA) was a no show at his packed town hall meeting. At least Tom
McClintock (R-CA) did appear, but then decided to bolt commencing the crowd to
chant shame on you.

Rep. McClintok with a police escort bolting from Town Hall

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) scheduled a meeting,
but then holds the meeting privately with only invited Republican attendees in
a different location. Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) took Brooks’ suggestion and held
his meeting 60 miles away from where it was scheduled to be held, but his
constituents sniffed him out and over 200 of them were as angry as a junkyard
dog.

Out of all of this though, Rep. Gus
Bilirakis (R-FL) licks the icing off the cake. He did hold a town hall. But, in
that meeting he stood up to tell his constituents a bare face lie. He’s still
hung up on the old Republican ‘death panel’ ruse in stating that Obamacare is
indeed a ‘death panel’. While doing so the crowd boos him where he insults
their integrity again by calling them children. Watch Bilirakis in action in
the short video below:

It turns out rather clearly that Trump
and the GOP have lied to Americans about Obamacare ever since its inception and
have lied for six years in claiming they have a wondrous replacement. Partisan
showing is all it has been.

The GOP can demean and stomp on folks,
but when it comes to democracy in action their chicken side suddenly kicks in
by not showing up, running away, moving meetings to differing locations
unannounced, or merely outright lying at an event. However, this protesting is
simply democracy in motion and it assuredly is nothing to be afraid of.

Republicans falsely whining that these
are so-called paid protesters by George Soros, had better wizen up, it is a
grassroots movement from the bottom up and the election years will return.

Finality
Opine:

Trump claims he has inherited an
economic mess in stating, “What I am
essentially inheriting is a mess. The finances of our country are a mess, but
we’re going to clean them up...we’ve already saved a lot.”

The thing is this is coming from someone
that has filed bankruptcy six times. American bankers and financial
institutions no longer granted him loans due to all his bankruptcy filings, which
is why he reached out to foreign financial and investment entities like Russia.

For after all, Trump now promises to
clean up America’s finances, but most likely through the same streamline of
bankruptcy once his building the wall costs and wealthy tax cuts kicks in.

On the 02/22/17 press conference, WH
Secretary Sean Spicer whimpering about all these protesters and angered folks
showing up at Republican town hall meetings stated that they should be
applauding Trump, instead of blurring the facts.

He also stated, “They’re losing their coverage and premiums are spiking, and so if
people are truly worried about losing their coverage, they should be applauding
the President’s action for wanting to make sure that we put a system in place
that does what they were promised a while back, and that’s what I think has
been missing from this dialogue.”

In fact, it’s Spicer who is blurring the
facts. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is health care legislation that impacts areas
of the health insurance system. If you are on employer-based insurance many of
the benefits, and the increase in coverage came from the ACA. Medicare and
Medicaid are both impacted by Obamacare, which by the way is the ACA. Obamacare
is not an insurance plan that folks are on. They are indeed on Medicaid,
Medicare and employer based health coverage as constructed through Obamacare.

Concerning the rise in premium costs,
this is due to the fact that private insurers hold the helm to insurance and
not the government as Republicans like to ruse. Just imagine how much private
insurance companies would have raised costs without the litigation of the ACA
as they have traditionally done. Still though, Obamacare has cut into the
stampeding costs in the rise of healthcare, for as since the law’s
implementation, healthcare costs have dropped down to the 1960’s inflation
rates.

Of course these folks aren’t going to
clap for Trump, he and Republicans are taking away their only safety net for
healthcare. Republicans are about to repeal the ACA and Trump claimed during
his Fox News Super bowl interview that he won’t have an Obamacare replacement
until after a year or two elapses.

Trump is nothing new when it comes to
unethical social policy issues; Republicans have been attacking them for
decades. Even Trump’s lying to the nation’s public is nothing new as
Republicans through misinformation, scapegoating and deceit have used the
public. Trump merely is the apex, the crowning achievement in Republican goals
to set up a caste system of the “haves
and have nots.”

Again I’ll repeat for all the Trump
followers...expectation can deceive perception.

Other countries look up to America as an
example of how democracy works and its intricacies of transparency and battling
corruption. The world looks up to our judiciary system so much so, that it is
U.S. judges that merit decisions on international sporting events whether it be
lawful implementation or scandals.

Trump’s administration may in short
course begin to unravel and flame out America’s beacon by showing it is OK to
exert corruption and to scoot towards more authoritarianism thereby diminishing
democracy. It’s only a matter of time that this nation is going to tire of its
iconic image being marred.

A perfect storm is quietly brewing picking
up enormous energy and strength. As I stated before, within two years Trump
will either be forced out of office or impeached...enough said...

A wise one knows to learn from a foolish
question. A foolish one knows not to learn from a wise answer...

About Me

Entered the world as Bruce John Anderson. With a dad as Bruce and two John dangrads (grandpas), grandma thought it too confusing, hence the nickname B.J. I've had ever since I was six months old; yet some folks refer to me as simply...The Beej.

Born in Stephenville, Texas on the Sunday morn of 11/09/52 and while growing up in the Fort Worth area, I have a West Texas flair about perception in life. Currently, I’m a misplaced Texan residing in NW Pa. and that is OK, for one Texan is about equal odds to one Yankee state. This ol' Texan does indeed love the snow up here. Snow is about the only thing I know of that can even make a junkyard look pretty.

Graduated: Trinity HS (Euless, TX) in ‘71 and later from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in ‘84 with a Bachelors in geology.

Had my first set of children Amber (1971) & Jason (1974) as a young man and my second set Claire (2003) & Paige (2005) I had as an old man. Am married to sweetness in Veronica my wife.

I extol the science disciplines working as a microbiologist, geophysicist, chemist & geologist.

Work has taken me into 39 countries. It’s amazing witnessing firsthand the varying cultures and environs, but prefer the myriad similarities; the old man sitting on a tree stump in front of his central Sudan mud hut was the same old man sitting in his favorite rocker on a West Texas front porch; both just sitting back watching the world go by while pondering it all.

My motto in life is don't take it so seriously, it's not like it's permanent.